Book Club / Culture
A life in words: These are the 38 memoirs that will stay with us forever
Close to our hearts and seared into our brains.
Book Club / Culture
Joan Didion’s diaries are being published
The 208-page book drawn from Didion’s personal journal has been preserved in its original form.
Book Club / Culture
This new book reveals that Eve Babitz and Joan Didion were actually frenemies
Lili Anolik’s new book takes us inside Didion and Babitz’s rivalry.
Culture / People
You can now buy Joan Didion’s apartment in New York City
Well, not if you don’t have a spare $7.5 million kicking around.
Book Club / Culture
The stories we tell: A book guide for the Joan Didion reader
“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”
Arts / Culture
A Joan Didion retrospective has arrived at UCLA
Theatre critic and staff writer at ‘The New Yorker’, Hilton Als, is piecing together an “exhibition as portrait” of the late author and journalist, whom he considered a close friend.
Home / Homewares
A selection of Joan Didion’s possessions are going up for sale
Items include Ed Ruscha paintings, photographs taken by Patti Smith and Didion’s beautiful cookware.
Book Club / Culture
When things fall apart: 11 books that hold true on the subject of grief
From Didion to Barthes, these titles are, if anything, a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.
